Mariano Rivera lowers his head after allowing a ninth-inning, game-winning, two-run home run to the Orioles' Adam Jones on Sunday.

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Vincent Z. Mercogliano
The Journal News

On the same day Hiroki Kuroda put on a performance that showed why he should have received stronger consideration for the American League All-Star team, one of the two Yankees who was selected let a win slip away.

Mariano Rivera blew just his second save of the season on Sunday, allowing a two-run homer to Adam Jones with one out in the ninth to hand the Baltimore Orioles a 2-1 win and snap the Yankees' six-game winning streak.

"I wanted it to be more in. It didn't get in enough," Rivera said of the pitch that Jones hit out. "It's too bad. Hiroki really pitched a tremendous game and he should have won a ...